Would you please help me come up with definitive Very Best Stockbroker. It would certainly help us and newbies to investing/trading, looking for the best site and deal. Hopefully the stockbrokers themselves will realalise they have to provide the very best and competitive service if they are going to keep their customers. What are we looking for????
A) costs for buying and selling
B) ease of use of the internet site and phone service
C) ease of putting in and taking out money
D) how does the site record your dealings?? paper profit made/loss
E) how quickly and what kind of deal does your broker get from the MM's
F) how quickly is the money made from a sell deal put back into your account
G) any other charges ie quarterly, inactivity fee??
H) do you get real-time prices wanting to do a deal
I) when you have the price do you have a time delay to have time to weigh up the deal before proceeding?
J) what kind of service do you get from the team if there is a problem.
K) what do the brokers do with your dividends

Have i missed out important things??? Facts and figures would be much appreciated. Cheers in advance everyone.

Would be interested to know if anyone can follow up on HP's post (see post 34) as I too would like to know if it's possible to get more than a 15 second trade time.
JJ.

Tried most of the Brokers over the years and 15 seconds has been standard.

The one broker to avoid at the moment is Hoodless Brennan. I'm with them and haven't been able to do a thing online today at all. The established site repeatedly logs you out and isn't quoting buy-sell prices whilst the newly designed site is deducting stamp duty for shares that are actually stamp duty exempt. It is absolutely frustrating and if you're looking for something reliable I'd look elsewhere!